Friday, 12 February 2010
I uploaded two older projects, both compositions done for Kevin Ernste’s seminar in electroacoustic composition at Cornell. The first is Untitled, for violin, circuit bent toy, and electronics and the second is Structured Autonomy: A Test for wind ensemble and electronics. These pieces were some of my first formal compositional exercises, and I welcome any feedback.
Saturday, 6 February 2010
I updated the information about Variations 10b by uploading the source code for the project. If you want to download it go ahead; let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Claudia Pederson and I will be teaching a course this upcoming spring at Ithaca College entitled FLEFF LAB: The Open Space Project. I’m really looking forward to it, as it will be a chance to explore some new ways of bringing together new media theory + practice with a group of engaged and interested students. The course description is as follows: “This course explores the concept of open space through a range of theories and practices of social media, social networking, emerging technologies, user-generated content, and other structures. Students will engage in group projects that combine conceptual investigation of open space modes with digital interfaces and social media. Finished projects and prototypes will be mounted on the FLEFF website. Course will be team taught by new media theorist/designers.”
Thursday, 3 December 2009
A new project: a greasemonkey script (or Firefox extension) for replacing the new search form on the Cornell Libraries website with their older form. I wrote this because of their switch to an external provider (worldcat.org) of library catalog services this semester. There are severe privacy concerns with sending such unencrypted library search information to a third-party source. Additionally, they now “provide” links to multinational corporations to “purchase” items that are in the collection. Both of these aspects go directly against the library’s core mission.
Monday, 23 November 2009
I have a new post at HASTAC on my concerns related to the announcement today of a new initiative in science and technology education. The short of it: the new initiative is an unholy alliance between the government, academia, and industry and recruits “low-income” students to create content for Sony. It also reifies scientific and technical knowledge over other ontologies and epistemologies. Please read my post for more details.
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Welcome to the new zeitkunst.org. After nearly two years of half-finished attempts, I’ve finally moved to a new design and a new system. All of the old content is here, along with some new things. The design works in all modern browsers: Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 7+. Except more regular updates of goings on, including approaching-semi-regular blog posting, up-to-date publications, and new projects. And if you want to follow along at home, you can do so through the feed.
Saturday, 14 November 2009
More recent news: I co-curated another in the recent series of Video/Art/Ithaca on 7 November 2009, and performed live video mixing, composed with Claudia Pederson, for the Requiem for Analog TV Noise at the Cornell Cinema on 12 November 2009. I’ll be posting shortly my pure data + pdp patch used for that performance.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Some upcoming and recent talks:
Upgrade! Boston, 13 October 2009
Bovay Seminar, Cornell University, 7 October 2009
Dis/Connecting/Media, 3 October, Basel, Switzerland (remote)
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
A couple of recent activities; I was quoted in an article about the 2009 School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell. As well, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) published my book review of Lisa Nakamura’s recent monograph, Digitizing Race. Be sure to read the other reviews as well as her response.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
A new project: MAICgregator
Monday, 13 April 2009
Quick note to post my slides from my recent alt.chi talk entitled HCI for the Real World. You can see some of the disturbing photos I took at the conference as well. Working on a project that I hope to be able to unveil here in the next couple of weeks…keep posted.
Friday, 20 February 2009
Anti-hundred-year birthday to the manifesto of the Italian Futurists. While indeed they did offer alternatives to staid European art movements, they did it in the name of militarism and a heavy dose of male chauvinism. Read instead the inverted Post Futurist Manifesto by Franco Berardi. In other news, there are a lot of photos from my recent trip to the Dominican Republic. A paper at CHI on which I was a co-author was nominated for a Best Paper Award (which we didn’t ultimately win, nonetheless). And my paper “HCI for the Real World ” was accepted for the alt.chi proceedings; I will present it in Boston on 9 April. (Note: this is not exactly the version I submitted, as the publisher required that I get rid of all colored links in the PDF and left justify my text; and this is the 21st century?)
